Police News

* A man found on his neighbor's front porch wearing only a T-shirt was arrested Monday night, police said.

Ronald Langua, 50, of 83 Elm St., Apt. A, was charged with public indecency and criminal trespass after the incident, which occurred on Phelps Street about 9:50 p.m., police said.

The Phelps Street resident told his neighbor to leave, and Langua ran away, police said. Police found him at his home.

In Manchester Superior Court Tuesday, Langua was released on a written promise to return to court Sept. 23, police said.

The resident told investigators Langua has approached his 9-year- old daughter in the past, asking her to come inside his home, police said.

* A local man is accused of banging on and kicking a neighbor's door, saying he had a gun, and later acting as though he would shoot responding officers, police said.

Police said they eventually arrested the man, but not before a tense struggle during which two officers pointed their guns at him.

The disturbance occurred about 7:20 p.m. Monday at Heritage Gardens apartments, 163 School St., where the man lives, police said. John Walsh, 48, allegedly yelled that he would shoot through the door, broke the door jamb, and left, a police report states.

An officer found him in the doorway of another apartment and tried to take him into custody, but he broke loose, police said. He made hand gestures to another person in the room that made it look as though he was asking for a gun, police said.

He moved out of sight for a moment and came back into view, holding both hands in front of him as though he had a gun, a police report states. He continued to refuse to show his hands, despite two officers' commands at gunpoint, police said. Police eventually moved in and saw that his hands were empty. No gun was found.